This looks like a total of 20 minutes was spent plugging the device in and running gorecord to see if it worked. A review, it is not.
"but I suspect this is only in a software re-encoding type of way."
At least there's no assertion made here, only a vague admission that nothing was tried except gorecord.
"which means you get excellent performance when using it from within MythTV."
Here's where I must cry foul. Mythtv is mentioned here a couple of times, but you seem never to have tested this device with it. Odds are in the real world people won't be using gorecord and futzing with audio sync issues. A real review should include evaluation of the product in a "use" environment, not on a test bench for 10 to 20 minutes.
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Posted by: shadestalker on July 12, 2005 11:17 AM"but I suspect this is only in a software re-encoding type of way."
At least there's no assertion made here, only a vague admission that nothing was tried except gorecord.
"which means you get excellent performance when using it from within MythTV."
Here's where I must cry foul. Mythtv is mentioned here a couple of times, but you seem never to have tested this device with it. Odds are in the real world people won't be using gorecord and futzing with audio sync issues. A real review should include evaluation of the product in a "use" environment, not on a test bench for 10 to 20 minutes.
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